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You take it off the bottom. If your 3/8" beespace is above the frames, your frames will now be flush with the bottom of the super. Wood shrinks, you will find in a few years that the frames are hanging below th bottom of the box. If you have a beespace at the top that is more than 3/8 if an inch, they will hang below th bottom of the box to start with. Most boxes start with less than 3/8" beespace above the frames.

Everyone keeps cheating, but standard deep frames used to be 9 1/4" and standard deep boxes 9 5/8". I don't know why they don't just bite the bullet and make the boxes a one by ten (9 1/4") and the frames 8 7/8" and have it done with.